That may be correct. On SOW 2 I'm not getting the 249 site number on my 396XT while Unitrunker shows it.

Harry, I seen the same thing, Site 660c5-05B - 249-249 using UniCrapper and other monitoring tools.
I did hear the techs say they did pull this SOW trailer two from the Calgary Warehouse or Crossfield airport storage....

The signal has been pretty strong on both CC channels, P25 audo pretty clear, no requests to repeat the transmission due to garrble

As of tomorrow I will have a Uniden 996xt at my disposal. I hope that being on the 16th floor (160' AGL) will help to be able to keep tabs on what is happening on the new radio system. As I come across anything new I will be sure to pass it along to the group.

Today I'm picking up CC from Drayton Valley 1 and can confirm what Bidulock reported. Both my 396XT and 996XT only show System 05A but no site number so it must be a 3 diget number the Uniden's can't handle.

mark2117: As per the Wiki page, programming this system is about as straightforward as it gets on the PSR-800 - meaning that it's extremely difficult to do anything on that scanner in the first place, but programming this system is no harder than any other system. Just remember to make sure that "Auto Fill" is checked in the system frequencies section when you're building each site in the EZ-Scan program.

In other news, inexplicably, the LMR North site has reappeared in Spectrum Direct, with only a small handful of licenses present, for Fort Assiniboine, Two Creeks, and Hardisty. I'll add them to the map shortly.

Cochrane has lit up today on 771.09375, on expected RFSS/site 92-92, sys 05B. The signal is better than I expected down in Bragg Creek but definitely not strong enough to cover the region adequately. With a mobile antenna on my car I get about a 15-40% decode rate in the town of Bragg Creek, and 5-20% at home westwards from there. My home base scanner, a PSR600 with an identical SpectrumForce mobile antenna on a piece of tin duct sheeting and run thru a multicoupler, 3 stories higher than the car, gets between 60% and 99% decode depending on moment to moment shifts in the signal strength.

The stated goal has been to cover "95% of primary and secondary highways with mobile coverage".. I guess I'm in the 5%.

Oh, by the way, also I logged some private calls/I-Calls the other day during testing of 05B-102-102 Calgary Airport. Not sure if that will carry on into the "live" portion of the system's life, but if you haven't had private calls configured yet in your settings, you might want to activate it.

I'm home from work (sick), so I had some spare time today to put all the pending stuff into the "E-Z Scan" software for the PSR-800. It's attached - open E-Z Scan and choose "File>Restore from Archive", then click on the zip file.

Also attached are the latest HP1, Uniden T/XT (FreeSCAN) and PSR-500/600 (Win500) formats.

It's entertaining to run one of these devices thru the spectrum and see what you can find. In this case I have nothing new but you'll recall I had an undocumented 772.x frequency the last time I did this - never did figure out which site that was, either.

The above searches are going to become more important now that the South license is also going protected. As of yesterday morning, other than licenses for some agencies to use the interop mobile frequencies (and, interestingly enough, some federal stuff in Fort McMurray), there are only 8 700MHz frequencies left listed in the 763-806 range in the Prairies section of Spectrum Direct.

Picking up a couple of very faint signals tonight, can tell they're P25 CCs but can't decode 'em.

773.05625 - last license data indicates this could be Foremost, Red Deer 2, or Buffalo Hills (rural Vulcan). I'd put money on the Vulcan signal, I doubt I could get Red Deer even on an awesome day for ducting/skip, and Foremost is pretty far too.

772.80625 - Calgary Forest Lawn or Youngstown. I'd bet Youngstown, but I didn't have a scanner with me today at work so it could be the city and I wouldn't know.